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Spring Boot – Load users from database
This is the third article in a series on authentication with Spring Boot. In the first article we authenticated using social networks, and allowed any user to access our application. In the second article we used inMemoryAuthentication for users that used the login form. In essence, we hardcoded our users. This article is about adding…
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Spring Boot login with a form
Previously I wrote about securing your application with social login. But not everybody has a social account. In this article we’re going to add formlogin to the application. Formlogin simply means that your users can log in with a username and password. We’re going to keep it as simple as possible, with in-memory authentication. Adding…
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Apache HttpClient
For a hackaton I wanted to read some files from our BitBucket server. I knew the URLs of the files, but there were some complications. First, you need to be authenticated. According to the documentation, the preferred way of authentication is HTTP Basic Authentication when authenticating over SSL. We are using an SSL connection, but…